Yugonostalgia and the Ministry of Possibilities
Ugrešić embodied anti- and non-nationalist people who, since the disintegration of their country, Yugoslavia, found themselves in a kind of an existential vacuum.
Essay, Guests, Translation
On Partisans and Monuments
For years, Vraca, like other monuments to the People’s Liberation Struggle, instead of being a place of memory became a place of oblivion.
Essay, Guests
If a Bomb Hits the Bridge
The grim thought accompanied my father on that chilly April morning in 1999. An absurd wartime thought. The same absurdity that had turned a bus ride into a matter of life and death.
Feature, Guests
Tito Squares and Streets as Remembrance and Reminders
Even though places named after Tito were all renamed at the end of the last millennium, a number of squares, roads, and streets have retained the names of the former Yugoslav leader. Is it, from today’s perspective, nostalgia, shame, or a part of history we can’t simply erase?
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Yugoslavia in My Life, My Life in Yugoslavia
Post-Yugoslav literature is burdened with collective memory, but it also has the ability to look in the mirror of history. If something good has come from all the terrible events that happened in ex-Yugoslavia and to it, it is that [they] have provoked an interest in the literature of my region.
Essay, Guests
Djordje Balašević: My Type of Yugonostalgia
Good art gives us a lexicon for our own feelings and experiences. It gives us back moments of our own life, expressed more poignantly. And no one was better at that than Balašević.